Anecdotally, HTC seems to be selling plenty of WP7 devices. Samsung has a slightly larger slice of the WP7 pie, but HTC has the second-biggest chunk.
How well their total sales volume compares to expectations, I cannot say. They certainly haven't turned their backs on the platform, though - there are 4 HTC WP7 devices that I know of, the HD7 (revised HD2), 7 Pro (revised Touch Pro 2), Trophy (not sure what its ancestry is) and Surround (no ancestry that I know of). I think that may be more than any other single OEM, in fact.
Just for the sake of clearing up this oft-repeated fallacy:
Android is all about choice; you can either have no licensing fee, OR you can have "the extensive Android market." Those are mutually exclusive, though. Google charges for access to that market.
In fact, the numbers I've heard indicate that OEMs pay more to Google for each Droid (or similar) than they do to Microsoft for each WP7 phone. It's still only a few dollars each way, but Android is only free if you don't include *any* of Google's services on it.
Alternatively, consider HTC - you know, the company that basically got started selling WinMo devices, and is now one of *the* big names in smartphone manufacture world-wide?
I'm not saying this couldn't go sour for Nokia, because it obviously could. But it certainly isn't guaranteed to, and could in fact pay off very handsomely indeed.
Slashdot itself uses border-radius. It has worked just fine for months now. Admittedly it was somewhat annoying that/. used to feed old-school CSS that didn't include the rounded corners when it detected IE, but you could trick it into sending the right code and now everything works. Since the recent "facelift" IE9 gets the right CSS by default, and yes it includes CSS3 things.
That page is full of BS. They test a lot of things they shouldn't, including redundent and even deprecated drafts of standards, and penalize you for not "supporting" them.
Go to the source, with W3C. According to them, and their compatibility tests, IE9 is doing fine - it's actually ahead of most of the competition on each part of CSS3, for example.
It's also worth noting that IE9's pre-release versions are very careful about supporting non-standard stuff with "standardized" names. For example, IE9 actually does support WebSockets just fine, but because the standard isn't finished, they use a "draft" extension on the name (websocket-draft). This causes sites like caniuse to claim IE9 can't do web sockets, which isn't accurate - other browsers are just implementing a "standard" that isn't.
Ironically enough, this is the kind of behavior that people got so pissed off (quite rightfully) at IE6 for. Just because it isn't MS, does that mean it's now OK to make uup your own standards when they arent' actually standardized yet?
It's up to the web developer to create a standards-compliant page. If the put a DOCTYPE at the top of the page, IE (8 or 9) will use the newest rendering engine. If they omit the DOCTYPE it'll use quirks mode because it assumes the page is a total hack written by somebody who wouldn't know a web standard if it hit him on the ass.
I wouldn't even bother, but somehow there's enough <redacted> out there to mod this up.
The Googler engineers INTENTIONALLY submitted that data to Microsoft! It's an opt-in feature. If you don't want Microsoft tracking the searches you do on Google and the sites you visit after those searches, then don't enable the "Tell MS all the URLs I visit" option! $DEITY some people are dumb...
You *think* you're done, at this point? Good for you, what took so long?
I've been Sony-free for years now. The CD rootkits was what did it for me. Nothing that I've seen since then has done anything but drive them deeper into the red. On the other hand, I have to go clear back to my childhood to remember a time when I thought Sony was a good brand. Ever since I've actually been paying attention to tech news they've been getting a darker and darker reputation, and it didn't take to much to push them into Do Not Buy category.
The only way they're going to stop this bullshit, short of regulation from higher authority, is if it hits them in the finances. If they only stop because they've gone into bankruptsy, I'm totally OK with that.
Social engineering is occasionally made out to be far more complex than it really is. The impressive part was already having enough access (a commonly used password, and his email account) to be in position to gain more access. Once you've got that, it's not that hard to fabricate an email or two.
Of course, there are still security measure that would help. If he'd signed his mail and the social engineering messages had arrived unsigned or with the wrong signature, that would have been a tip-off.
Fault no, responsibility (to respond to complaints) yes. At that point it's no longer "unknowingly" and if they don't comply with a takedown request they become an accomplice to copyright infringement and could be sued for immense damages (leaving aside the other harm that they would take).
That's leaving aside the "developer" of the pirated game, who is probably being contacted by lawyers already.
Somewhat ironic indeed, that the DMCA takedown notice is not being used for the *exact* thing it's designed for. It seems to get used for everything *else*...
Not unless you opt in to it. This is not something that's enabled by default. The user has to specifically install the toolbar and agree to be tracked. The Google employess were deliberately sending that data to Microsoft, then complaining when Microsoft used it.
In roughly referse order, a few examples off the top of my head:
* A game system peripheral that uses stereoscopic cameras to detect depth and control a system / play a game with no physical controller. (Kinect)
* Create a computer whose interface is a multi-touch table that can actually see (not just sense) objects placed on in. (Surface)
* Create a secondary permission system, independent of user account, and use it to sandbox vulnerable apps. (IE Protected Mode)
* Track application usage patterns and pre-load software that the user is likely to run soon into RAM. (SuperFetch)
* Create a game console designed for online play and a service that gamers can connect to for online matches, DLC, and patches. (Xbox/Xbox Live)
* Create a way for JavaScript to request content from a web server without reloading the page, thus enabling AJAX. (XMLHttpRequest)
* Include a web browser with every OS installation, by default. (Internet Explorer).
If they were so satisfied with Google as a product, why were they voluntarily (opt-in) sending data to Microsoft? That sounds more like they're attempting to help improve Bing by showing which results they find relevant from *any* source. If Best Buy employee tells Fry's Electronics that a lot of people coming into Best Buy are purchasing a little-known Bluetooth headset, and Fry's Electronics subsequently starts carrying that headset, would you say that they are "stealing" the results of Best Buy's market research? It was freely given! That's exactly the same thing that happened in this case.
It's an opt-in service. I don't like it but it's perfectly legal. Google does the same thing, FYI (although nobody has done a similar sting from the Bing side).
To disassemble your analogy, being a soldier on active duty in a foreign country would be a pretty strong alibi for a domestic bank robbery. Just because you might find his actions disagreeable ("He was firing his gun and murdering someone!") doesn't make them wrong.
Actually, you're wrong. Bing didn't use Google's search relevance at all. What they did use is "When user searches for X they click on Y." They do the same thing with their own search engine. If they were actually copying Google, they would run every Bing query past Google as well, and put Google's top result in their results (or promote it if it was already there). That's not what is happening at all.
No, that's not what he's saying. Copying would mean simply taking Google's results directly. They are using the data that their users elect to send them, including that "When I Google for X, my first click is Y." It's a subtle but significant difference.
If there's a way to make any web search engine do a case-sensitive search, I don't know it. I imagine their indexing automatically case-insensitizes everything. Usually that's a good thing but I can see how it would be annoying at times.
Not quite accurate. You're able to do what you say, but you're also able to do more - specifically, you're able to install apps that do things with the Marketplace apps aren't allowed to do, such as access native APIs.
OkCupid and PlentyOfFish are both free sites. The OKC blog (called OkTrends) has some pretty cool analysis of why paid dating sites are in fact a ripoff, but that's not relevant here.
Ironically enough, MS is actually pretty good here.
Xbox 360 dev kits are expensive and restrictive, but you can develop homebrew games for it using XNA (provided you don't need direct hardware access, this should work just fine for most games). The SDK is free, and the ability to post your game to the marketplace is $100/account (much like Apple's store).
WP7 can be developer-unlocked for $100 (or using WP7, but that will apparently get blocked). Once it's unlocked, you can go to town - full access to the filesystem, registry, sensors, camera, you name it. There's already some pretty neat homebrew, ranging from a nice file manager to a functioning webserver to a NES emulator. It's all unofficial, of course, but MS hasn't tried to stop it... almost the opposite, really.
Having the left sidebar be optional, allow controlling the depth of comment nesting (like the D2 sliders), and/or having it provide a feed (new stories posted, replies or moderations to my comments/stories, new messages, activity by friends) would be really neat.
Dear god, what browser are you using?!? IE9 (or any other modern browser; I just happen to be testing it in IE9 at the moment) is using less than 10% of my laptop's CPU when scrolling, and usage is lost in the noise when I'm not.
If you're getting 100% pegged, something is very wrong.
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Anecdotally, HTC seems to be selling plenty of WP7 devices. Samsung has a slightly larger slice of the WP7 pie, but HTC has the second-biggest chunk.
How well their total sales volume compares to expectations, I cannot say. They certainly haven't turned their backs on the platform, though - there are 4 HTC WP7 devices that I know of, the HD7 (revised HD2), 7 Pro (revised Touch Pro 2), Trophy (not sure what its ancestry is) and Surround (no ancestry that I know of). I think that may be more than any other single OEM, in fact.
Just for the sake of clearing up this oft-repeated fallacy:
Android is all about choice; you can either have no licensing fee, OR you can have "the extensive Android market." Those are mutually exclusive, though. Google charges for access to that market.
In fact, the numbers I've heard indicate that OEMs pay more to Google for each Droid (or similar) than they do to Microsoft for each WP7 phone. It's still only a few dollars each way, but Android is only free if you don't include *any* of Google's services on it.
Alternatively, consider HTC - you know, the company that basically got started selling WinMo devices, and is now one of *the* big names in smartphone manufacture world-wide?
I'm not saying this couldn't go sour for Nokia, because it obviously could. But it certainly isn't guaranteed to, and could in fact pay off very handsomely indeed.
Slashdot itself uses border-radius. It has worked just fine for months now. Admittedly it was somewhat annoying that /. used to feed old-school CSS that didn't include the rounded corners when it detected IE, but you could trick it into sending the right code and now everything works. Since the recent "facelift" IE9 gets the right CSS by default, and yes it includes CSS3 things.
That page is full of BS. They test a lot of things they shouldn't, including redundent and even deprecated drafts of standards, and penalize you for not "supporting" them.
Go to the source, with W3C. According to them, and their compatibility tests, IE9 is doing fine - it's actually ahead of most of the competition on each part of CSS3, for example.
It's also worth noting that IE9's pre-release versions are very careful about supporting non-standard stuff with "standardized" names. For example, IE9 actually does support WebSockets just fine, but because the standard isn't finished, they use a "draft" extension on the name (websocket-draft). This causes sites like caniuse to claim IE9 can't do web sockets, which isn't accurate - other browsers are just implementing a "standard" that isn't.
Ironically enough, this is the kind of behavior that people got so pissed off (quite rightfully) at IE6 for. Just because it isn't MS, does that mean it's now OK to make uup your own standards when they arent' actually standardized yet?
It's up to the web developer to create a standards-compliant page. If the put a DOCTYPE at the top of the page, IE (8 or 9) will use the newest rendering engine. If they omit the DOCTYPE it'll use quirks mode because it assumes the page is a total hack written by somebody who wouldn't know a web standard if it hit him on the ass.
I wouldn't even bother, but somehow there's enough <redacted> out there to mod this up.
The Googler engineers INTENTIONALLY submitted that data to Microsoft! It's an opt-in feature. If you don't want Microsoft tracking the searches you do on Google and the sites you visit after those searches, then don't enable the "Tell MS all the URLs I visit" option! $DEITY some people are dumb...
You *think* you're done, at this point? Good for you, what took so long?
I've been Sony-free for years now. The CD rootkits was what did it for me. Nothing that I've seen since then has done anything but drive them deeper into the red. On the other hand, I have to go clear back to my childhood to remember a time when I thought Sony was a good brand. Ever since I've actually been paying attention to tech news they've been getting a darker and darker reputation, and it didn't take to much to push them into Do Not Buy category.
The only way they're going to stop this bullshit, short of regulation from higher authority, is if it hits them in the finances. If they only stop because they've gone into bankruptsy, I'm totally OK with that.
Social engineering is occasionally made out to be far more complex than it really is. The impressive part was already having enough access (a commonly used password, and his email account) to be in position to gain more access. Once you've got that, it's not that hard to fabricate an email or two.
Of course, there are still security measure that would help. If he'd signed his mail and the social engineering messages had arrived unsigned or with the wrong signature, that would have been a tip-off.
Fault no, responsibility (to respond to complaints) yes. At that point it's no longer "unknowingly" and if they don't comply with a takedown request they become an accomplice to copyright infringement and could be sued for immense damages (leaving aside the other harm that they would take).
That's leaving aside the "developer" of the pirated game, who is probably being contacted by lawyers already.
Does that mean the process or creating software for a mac is called "Applicationing"? ;-)
Somewhat ironic indeed, that the DMCA takedown notice is not being used for the *exact* thing it's designed for. It seems to get used for everything *else*...
Not unless you opt in to it. This is not something that's enabled by default. The user has to specifically install the toolbar and agree to be tracked. The Google employess were deliberately sending that data to Microsoft, then complaining when Microsoft used it.
In roughly referse order, a few examples off the top of my head:
* A game system peripheral that uses stereoscopic cameras to detect depth and control a system / play a game with no physical controller. (Kinect)
* Create a computer whose interface is a multi-touch table that can actually see (not just sense) objects placed on in. (Surface)
* Create a secondary permission system, independent of user account, and use it to sandbox vulnerable apps. (IE Protected Mode)
* Track application usage patterns and pre-load software that the user is likely to run soon into RAM. (SuperFetch)
* Create a game console designed for online play and a service that gamers can connect to for online matches, DLC, and patches. (Xbox/Xbox Live)
* Create a way for JavaScript to request content from a web server without reloading the page, thus enabling AJAX. (XMLHttpRequest)
* Include a web browser with every OS installation, by default. (Internet Explorer).
If they were so satisfied with Google as a product, why were they voluntarily (opt-in) sending data to Microsoft? That sounds more like they're attempting to help improve Bing by showing which results they find relevant from *any* source. If Best Buy employee tells Fry's Electronics that a lot of people coming into Best Buy are purchasing a little-known Bluetooth headset, and Fry's Electronics subsequently starts carrying that headset, would you say that they are "stealing" the results of Best Buy's market research? It was freely given! That's exactly the same thing that happened in this case.
It's an opt-in service. I don't like it but it's perfectly legal. Google does the same thing, FYI (although nobody has done a similar sting from the Bing side).
To disassemble your analogy, being a soldier on active duty in a foreign country would be a pretty strong alibi for a domestic bank robbery. Just because you might find his actions disagreeable ("He was firing his gun and murdering someone!") doesn't make them wrong.
Actually, you're wrong. Bing didn't use Google's search relevance at all. What they did use is "When user searches for X they click on Y." They do the same thing with their own search engine. If they were actually copying Google, they would run every Bing query past Google as well, and put Google's top result in their results (or promote it if it was already there). That's not what is happening at all.
No, that's not what he's saying. Copying would mean simply taking Google's results directly. They are using the data that their users elect to send them, including that "When I Google for X, my first click is Y." It's a subtle but significant difference.
If there's a way to make any web search engine do a case-sensitive search, I don't know it. I imagine their indexing automatically case-insensitizes everything. Usually that's a good thing but I can see how it would be annoying at times.
Not quite accurate. You're able to do what you say, but you're also able to do more - specifically, you're able to install apps that do things with the Marketplace apps aren't allowed to do, such as access native APIs.
OkCupid and PlentyOfFish are both free sites. The OKC blog (called OkTrends) has some pretty cool analysis of why paid dating sites are in fact a ripoff, but that's not relevant here.
This is actually my biggest complaint about Clear: Call them outside working hours, and you get a message telling you to try the online chat.
Um... guys?? If I'm calling my ISP's tech support line, it's probably *NOT* because my Internet is working!
That said, I've found it to generally be a good service. Not the best for everybody, but better than most.
Ironically enough, MS is actually pretty good here.
Xbox 360 dev kits are expensive and restrictive, but you can develop homebrew games for it using XNA (provided you don't need direct hardware access, this should work just fine for most games). The SDK is free, and the ability to post your game to the marketplace is $100/account (much like Apple's store).
WP7 can be developer-unlocked for $100 (or using WP7, but that will apparently get blocked). Once it's unlocked, you can go to town - full access to the filesystem, registry, sensors, camera, you name it. There's already some pretty neat homebrew, ranging from a nice file manager to a functioning webserver to a NES emulator. It's all unofficial, of course, but MS hasn't tried to stop it... almost the opposite, really.
Having the left sidebar be optional, allow controlling the depth of comment nesting (like the D2 sliders), and/or having it provide a feed (new stories posted, replies or moderations to my comments/stories, new messages, activity by friends) would be really neat.
Dear god, what browser are you using?!? IE9 (or any other modern browser; I just happen to be testing it in IE9 at the moment) is using less than 10% of my laptop's CPU when scrolling, and usage is lost in the noise when I'm not.
If you're getting 100% pegged, something is very wrong.